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Show AN INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE ITEM. Clipping From a Contemporary, December De-cember 28, 1002. Hundreds of Philadelphia people are being brought into court by the Keystone Key-stone Telephone company for non-payment of It bills, and the hearings show great dissatisfaction with the company's com-pany's service. It was introduced to rival the Bell Telephone company, and subscribers were sought under, the promise that no bills would be sent out until 6000 subscribers had been enrolled. Already tome 250 cases of this sort I have been heard, and many subscrlb-! subscrlb-! ers testify that they found the Key-! Key-! stone service to be totally Inadequate, and ordered their telephones removed. This did not avail, because they were bound by a contract which most of those in court did not appear to have read. It Is also claimed that the agents of the company made verbal representations repre-sentations which are of no avail in view of the signed contracts. The magistrate mag-istrate says the subscribers must pay under these circumstances, and many Appeals are being taken. These suits have been productive of much pnJse of the Boll service, as the only adequate one In Pnlladelphia. -People must have it, and hence the effort to get rid of the Keystone connection, which does not fill the bill and is an annoyance and needless expense, i - - . . |